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Robin Yardi
THE MIDNIGHT WAR OF MATEO MARTINEZ
March 2016, Carolrhoda Books/Lerner, 184 pp
Life is confusing for Mateo Martinez. He and Johnny Ramirez don’t hang out anymore, even though they used to be best friends. He and his new friend Ashwin try to act like brave, old-time knights, but...
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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON AND THE WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS
September 2024, Disney-Hyperion, 288 pp
Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice. Now ...
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Randi Pink
UNDER THE HERON'S LIGHT
October 2024, Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 352 pp
On a damp night in 1722, Babylou Mac and her three siblings witness the murder of their mother at the hands of the local preacher’s son—so Babylou kills him in retaliation. With plantation dogs now on...
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Sarah Dvojack
WELCOME TO FEAR CITY
September 2024, Union Square Kids, 454 pp
New York City, 1977. Seventeen-year-old Sylvie Stroud can see the past of any building just by touching it. Her powers have always been reliable, until the day she witnesses the shooting of a teenage...
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Yamile Saied Méndez
THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
September 2024, Algonquin Young Readers/Hachette, 336 pp
A powerful story about family, fútbol, and playing like a girl from the award-winning author of Furia. At thirteen years old, Valeria "Magic" Salomón is already the best soccer player her town has ev...
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Dana Alison Levy
NOT ANOTHER BANNED BOOK
September 2024, Random House Children's Books, 320 pp
No matter what was going on in Molly's life at home, she always had book club at school. Whether she's dealing with a death in the family or her parent's breaking the news they want to move she is abl...
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Tracey Baptiste
BOY 2.0
October 2024, Algonquin Young Readers/Hachette, TBD pp
Win “Coal” Keegan has just landed in his latest foster home, with a big, noisy, slightly nosy family named the McKays. They seem eager to welcome Coal, but he’s wary of trusting them. So, he doesn’t t...
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Ben Clanton
PAINT WITH PLOOF
October 2024, Tundra/Penguin Random House Canada, 56 pp
Come paint with Ploof in book two in the new series from Andy Chou Musser and NYT bestselling author of the Narwhal and Jelly series Ben Clanton. Ploof is painting a rainbow for the very first time. C...
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Ben Clanton
PLOOF
September 2023, Tundra/Penguin Random House Canada, 56 pp
Come play with Ploof! Meet a friendly cloud full of feelings in this interactive picture book for fans of Hervé Tullet’s Press Here. Ploof is a puffy cloud who’s a little lonely — but now you’re here...
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Brittany J. Thurman
FOREVER AND ALWAYS
January 2024, Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 40 pp
In this lyrical picture book from two breakout picture book creators, a young Black child waits for—and worries about—her father while he’s away from home. A sensitive, poignant portrayal of a family’...
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Ben Clanton
TATER TALES: THE KING OF THE WORLD
April 2024, Simon and Schuster, 88 pp
Rot is ready for another adventure and this time he’s going “Spudlunking!” But while Rot is excited to dig through the muck for treasure, all his friends seem to be more interested in their own plans....
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Tracey Baptiste
MOKO MAGIC 01: CARNIVAL CHAOS
August 2024, Freedom Fire/Disney, 400 pp
Cousins Misty, Aidan, and Brooke discover that they carry the ancestral power of real moko healers from west Africa, and are the descendants of the first moko jumbie who followed a slave ship across t...
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Randy Ribay
EVERYTHING WE NEVER HAD
August 2024, Kokila/Penguin Random House, 352 pp
From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, mascul...
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Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
YOU'RE BREAKING MY HEART
January 2024, Levine Querido, 304 pp
Harriet Adu knows that her brother's death is her fault. I mean, it's not actually her fault, but it still kinda is, isn't it? She would do anything to live in a world where she could take back what...
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Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
OPERATION SISTERHOOD: STEALING THE SHOW
Spring 2025, Crown/Random House, TBD pp
When Sunday's plans for a spectacular neighborhood theatre production go awry because of a new celebrity neighbor, her sisters need to help her find the way back to the community connections that spar...
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Bianca Xunise
PUNK ROCK KARAOKE
April 2024, Viking/Penguin Random House, 256 pp
A debut young adult graphic novel from Ignatz Award-winning and nationally syndicated cartoonist, Bianca Xunise. School is out for summer and Ariel Grace Jone When life gives you guitars, smash them!...
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Aida Salazar
ULTRAVIOLET
April 2024, Scholastic, 256 pp
Can love break your heart-literally? For Elio, eighth grade fizzes with change. In his body. With his pops, who makes them join a father-son group to talk about puberty and manly stuff and being Mexi...
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Wendy Xu
THE INFINITY PARTICLE
August 2023, Quill Tree/HarperCollins, 272 pp
This thought-provoking limited palette graphic novel by the co-creator of Mooncakes explores big questions through the eyes of an aspiring inventor and the lifelike AI she finds herself falling for. ...
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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON AND THE CHALICE OF THE GODS
September 2023, Disney-Hyperion, 256 pp
The original heroes from The Lightning Thief are reunited for their biggest challenge yet: getting Percy to college when the gods are standing in his way. After saving the world multiple times, Percy...
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Jeanne DuPrau
PROJECT F
October 2023, Random House Children's Books, 224 pp
WHAT IS PROJECT F? It’s life-changing! It’s an adventure! It’s freedom! It’s dangerous. From the author of The City of Ember comes a tension-filled post-apocalyptic novel like nothing you’ve read befo...
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William Alexander
GOBLIN SECRETS
January 2012, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 256 pp
In the National Book Award–winning Goblin Secrets, a boy joins a theatrical troupe of goblins to find his missing brother. Rownie, the youngest in Graba’s witchy household of stray children, escapes ...
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William Alexander
GHOULISH SONG
April 2014, Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster, 192 pp
Set alongside the National Book Award-winning Goblin Secrets, Ghoulish Song weaves a story of music and mystery through the charmed, cursed world of Zombay. The last day of Kaile’s life does not star...
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William Alexander
AMBASSADOR
September 2015, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 256 pp
Gabe Fuentes is in for the ride of his life when he becomes Earth’s ambassador to the galaxy in this alien sci-fi adventure from the National Book Award–winning author of Goblin Secrets. Gabe Fuentes...
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William Alexander
NOMAD
September 2016, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 288 pp
When we last left Earth’s ambassador, Gabe Fuentes, he was stranded on the moon. Things don’t get better after he gets rescued by another young diplomat. The Outlast—a ruthless and spacefaring civiliz...
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William Alexander
A PROPERLY UNHAUNTED PLACE
August 2018, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 208 pp
From National Book Award–winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two kids who try to save their town by bringing back its ghosts. Rosa Ramona Díaz has just moved to the sm...
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William Alexander
A FESTIVAL OF GHOSTS
May 2019, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, 228 pp
National Book Award winner William Alexander conjures up a spooky adventure full of excitement in this entertaining sequel to A Properly Unhaunted Place, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Ro...
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Bessie Flores Zaldívar
LIBERTAD
August 2024, Dial/Penguin Young Readers, 272 pp
A queer YA coming-of-age set during the rigged Honduran presidential election, about a young poet discovering the courage it takes to speak her truth about the people and country she loves. As the c...
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Ellen Oh
HARU, ZOMBIE DOG HERO
July 2023, HarperCollins Children's Books, 176 pp
An evil laboratory causes a zombie apocalypse through illegal animal testing and a kidnapped dog, Haru. When Haru turns into a zombie, it is his love for his human boy that keeps him from turning into...
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Sean Rubin
THE IGUANODON'S HORN
March 2024, HarperCollins, 48 pp
Highlighting the role of artists in the scientific process, this crowd-pleasing look at dinosaurs explores how new discoveries deepen our understanding of the world. Ever since mysterious bones were ...
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C.G. Esperanza
KICKS IN THE SKY
September 2023, Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, 40 pp
Pura Belprè Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor winner C. G. Esperanza delivers color, rhythm, and style in this rollicking tale about everyday treasures turned magical! Red kicks, green kicks, yellow...
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Shakirah Bourne
NIGHTMARE ISLAND
May 2023, Scholastic, 304 pp
Serenity Noah has never told anyone about her recurring nightmare, where a silver butterfly leads her to a shadowy, silent monster. Her parents already favor her little brother, Peace, and as the "dif...
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Ben Clanton
TATER TALES: THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD
November 2022, Simon & Schuster, 88 pp
Two spud siblings face off in a series of epic challenges in this first installment of a new and hilariously silly graphic novel chapter book series from the bestselling creator of the Narwhal and Jel...
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Megan Brennan
Magic Girls
KIRA AND THE (MAYBE) SPACE PRINCESS
March 2024, Random House Graphic, 225 pp
Welcome to Neo-Earth Junior High school, where the corridors are filled with heroines, geniuses and magic! 6th grader Kira just wants to escape her horrible fate: being totally and completely average....
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Madeline McGrane
THE ACCURSED VAMPIRE: CURSE AT WITCH CAMP
February 2023, HarperCollins, 256 pp
Vampires at witch camp? What could go wrong? It’s summertime in Baneberry Falls and Drago and their vampire pals Eztli and Quintus are heading to witch camp where they’ll learn spells and magic along...
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Aida Salazar
A SEED IN THE SUN
October 2022, Dial/Penguin Random House, 304 pp
A farm working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for migrant workers’ rights in this tender-hearted middle grade novel in verse, perfect for fans of Rita Wi...
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Camryn Garrett
OFF THE RECORD
May 2021, Knopf/Random House, 320 pp
Ever since seventeen-year-old Josie Wright can remember, writing has been her identity, the thing that grounds her when everything else is a garbage fire. So when she wins a contest to write a celebri...
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Camryn Garrett
FULL DISCLOSURE
December 2020, Knopf/Random House, 320 pp
Simone Garcia-Hampton is absolutely positive that having a crush is more dangerous than having HIV; after all, she’s got her viral load under control. Simone knows that her status isn’t a death senten...
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Rick Riordan
THE SUN AND THE STAR
May 2023, Disney-Hyperion, 480 pp
The best-selling author behind Percy Jackson and the Olympians will soon be returning to Percy Jackson's world, this time in a book focused on Nico di Angelo, the son of Hades who first appeared way b...
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Camryn Garrett
FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE
January 2023, Knopf/Random House, 288 pp
A love letter to romantic comedies, sweet sixteen blowouts, black joy and queer pride—this is a novel about finding yourself, falling in love, and celebrating what makes you you. Sixteen-year-old Mah...
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Randi Pink
WE ARE THE SCRIBES
October 2022, Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan, 320 pp
Ruth Fitz is surrounded by activism. Her mother is a senator fighting for legislative social change, her father, a professor of African American history, is a walking encyclopedia, and her sister is a...
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E.L. Shen
THE QUEENS OF NEW YORK
June 2023, Quill Tree/HarperCollins, 336 pp
Three best friends have one life-changing summer in this contemporary, Asian American Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang have been best friends since their paren...
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Kacen Callender
LARK AND KASIM START A REVOLUTION
September 2022, Abrams, 336 pp
From National Book Award–winner Kacen Callender, a contemporary YA that follows Lark's journey to speak the truth and discover how their own self-love can be a revolution Lark Winters wants to be a w...
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Kacen Callender
MOONFLOWER
September 2022, Scholastic, 272 pp
The award-winning author of Hurricane Child and King and the Dragonflies brings another unflinching story of identity and hope to young readers. Every night, twelve-year-old Moon leaves for the spiri...
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Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
OPERATION SISTERHOOD
January 2022, Crown/Random House, 272 pp
ans of the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club will delight in this blended-family story about four sisters who band together in the heart of New York City. A jubilant novel about the difficulties ...
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Victoria J. Coe
MAKE WAY FOR FENWAY
FENWAY AND THE GREAT ESCAPE
October 2023, Putnam/Penguin Random House, 96 pp
The little dog with a GIANT personality from Fenway and Hattie is starring in his own chapter book series! The little dog with the GIANT personality from Fenway and Hattie just knows he is meant to r...
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Nina Crews
I'm Not Small
March 2022, Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 32 pp
What makes you big? What makes you small? From acclaimed author-illustrator Nina Crews comes a picture book that introduces young children to the concepts of size and comparisons. A great choice for e...
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Rick Riordan
DAUGHTER OF THE DEEP
October 2021, Hyperion, 416pp
New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan pays homage to Jules Verne in his exciting modern take on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a fiv...
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Daria Peoples-Riley
AMERICA, MY LOVE, AMERICA, MY HEART
April 2021, Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 40pp
America, do you love me? My black. My brown. My pride. My crown. Acclaimed author-artist Daria Peoples-Riley invites readers to answer timely—and timeless—questions beating inside the hearts of child...
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Schuyler Bailar
OBIE IS MAN ENOUGH
September 2021, Crown/Random House, 352 pp
A coming-of-age story about transgender tween Obie who didn't think being himself would cause such a splash. For fans of Alex Gino's George and Lisa Bunker's Felix Yz. Obie knew his transition would ...
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Ben Clanton
NARWHAL AND JELLY BOARD BOOK SERIES
BLANKIE
February 2021, Tundra/Penguin Random House Canada, 22 pp
Dive into a brand new Narwhal and Jelly story for the youngest readers! A big, yellow blankie is one of Narwhal's favorite things; not only because it keeps Narwhal warm and cozy, but also because it'...
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Madeline McGrane
THE ACCURSED VAMPIRE
July 2021, HarperCollins, 176pp
A spooky and funny graphic novel debut that’s perfect for fans of Molly Knox Ostertag’s THE WITCH BOY and Kristen Gudsnuk’s MAKING FRIENDS. Dragoslava is a vampire kid. And that’s not even the worst ...
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Sarah Dvojack
ROSIE THE RIVETER
October 2021, Imprint/Macmillan, 40 pp
A picture book illustrating how the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter has evolved and inspired generations of women to make history....
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Sorted By: UK
C.G. Esperanza
BOOGIE BOOGIE Y'ALL
August 2021, Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, 40pp
A rhythmic picture book celebrating the Bronx and street art culture....
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Kelly Quindlen
SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY
April 2021, Roaring Brook/Macmillan, 304 pp
From author Kelly Quindlen comes a new laugh-out-loud romp through the ups and downs of teen romance. After losing spectacularly to her ex-girlfriend in their first basketball game since their break ...
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Suzanne Weyn
THIEF EYES
Spring 2010, Random House, 272 pp
After her mother mysteriously disappears, sixteen-year-old Haley convinces her father to take her to Iceland, where her mother was last seen. There, amidst the ancient fissures and crevices of that vo...
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Suzanne Weyn
EMPTY
Fall 2010, Scholastic, 192 pp
A dystopic look at what happens to one American town when all the fossil fuels run out... It's the future - the very near future - and the fossil fuels are running out. No gas. No oil. Which means no...
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Suzanne Weyn
FACES OF THE DEAD
Summer 2014, Scholastic, 213 pp
When Marie-Therese, daughter of Marie Antoinette, slips into the streets of Paris at the height of the French Revolution, she finds a world much darker than what she's ever known. When Marie-Thérèse ...
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Rick Riordan
THE GRAPHIC NOVELS
SERPENT'S SHADOW
October 2015, Hyperion, 160 pp
Based on the best-selling novels by Rick Riordan....
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Rick Riordan
THE GRAPHIC NOVELS
THE LAST OLYMPIAN
August 2019, Hyperion, TBD pp
Based on the best-selling novels by Rick Riordan....
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Rick Riordan
THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
October 2018, Hyperion, 128 pp
Based on the best-selling novels by Rick Riordan....
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Rick Riordan
THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
October 2010, Hyperion, 128 pp
Based on the best-selling novels by Rick Riordan....
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Rick Riordan
THE SEA OF MONSTERS: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
July 2013, Hyperion, 128 pp
Based on the best-selling novels by Rick Riordan....
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Rick Riordan
THE TITAN'S CURSE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
October 2013, Hyperion, 128 pp
Based on the best-selling novels by Rick Riordan....
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Rick Riordan
THE LOST HERO: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
October 2014, Hyperion, 192 pp
Based on the best-selling novels by Rick Riordan....
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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE
January 2010, Hyperion, TBD pp
It’s the handbook no half-blood should be without: a fully illustrated, in-depth guide to gods, monsters, and all things Percy. This novelty companion to the best-selling series comes complete with tr...
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Rick Riordan
THE HEROES OF OLYMPUS: THE DEMIGOD DIARIES
August 2012, Hyperion, 224 pp
What dangers do runaway demigods Luke and Thalia face on their way to Camp Half-Blood? Are Percy and Annabeth up to the task of rescuing stolen goods from a fire-breathing giant who doesn't take kindl...
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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE DEMIGOD FILES
February 2009, Hyperion, 160 pp
How do you handle an encounter with Medusa on the New Jersey interstate? What's the best way to take down a minotaur? Become an expert on everything in Percy's world with this must-have guide to the P...
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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF ILLUSTRATED EDITION
August 2018, Hyperion, 240 pp
Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school . . . again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight ou...
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Rick Riordan
THE LAST OLYMPIAN
May 2009, Hyperion, 400 pp
The series that started it all. Join the adventures of Percy Jackson and his demigod friends as they fight mythological monsters and the forces of the titan lord Kronos....
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Rick Riordan
THE GRAPHIC NOVELS
THE SON OF NEPTUNE
February 2017, Hyperion, 192 pp
Based on the best-selling novels by Rick Riordan....
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Rick Riordan
CAMP HALF-BLOOD CONFIDENTIAL
May 2017, Hyperion, 192 pp
A Heroes of Olympus Companion Guide – An inside look at a demigod’s home-away-from-home....
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Rick Riordan
BLOOD OF OLYMPUS
October 2014, Hyperion, 608 pp
A new Great Prophecy, a new generation of demigods – the adventures have just begun! Expect to see old friends from the Percy Jackson books along with a great new cast of main characters, as the heroe...
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Rick Riordan
THE KANE CHRONICLES SURVIVAL GUIDE
March 2012, Hyperion, 144 pp
A gorgeous primer on the people, places, gods and creatures found in The Kane Chronicles series, featuring enough information and extras to satisfy avid followers and budding Egyptologists alike....
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Rick Riordan
BROOKLYN HOUSE MAGICIAN’S MANUAL
May 2018, Hyperion, 192 pp
Packed with quizzes, stories, and insights about Ancient Egyptian deities, creatures (the friendly and the deadly), the mysterious Duat, and more, this primer will prepare those with the blood of the ...
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Rick Riordan
THE SERPENT’S SHADOW
May 2012, Hyperion, 416 pp
When a magical accident unleashes the Egyptian gods into the modern world, Carter and Sadie Kane discover that they are descended from the most powerful Egyptian magicians, and only they have the powe...
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Rick Riordan
CROWN OF PTOLEMY
April 2015, Hyperion, 40 pp
Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Sadie Kane and Carter Kane, together at last!...
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Rick Riordan
STAFF OF SERAPIS
April 2014, Hyperion, 40 pp
Sadie Kane meets Annabeth Chase...
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Rick Riordan
SON OF SOBEK
May 2013, Hyperion, 40 pp
Carter Kane meets Percy Jackson...
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Rick Riordan
DEMIGODS AND MAGICIANS
April 2015, Hyperion, 224 pp
Bind-up of three crossover short stories...
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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON'S GREEK GODS
August 2014, Hyperion, 318 pp
Who could tell the origin stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? Percy Jackson provides an insider’s view and Riordan delivers it in the same voice we have all grown to know ...
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Rick Riordan
PERCY JACKSON’S GREEK HEROES
August 2015, Hyperion, 416 pp
Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect fro...
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Rick Riordan
THE HOTEL VALHALLA GUIDE TO THE NORSE WORLDS
August 2016, Hyperion, 160 pp
A Magnus Chase Companion Guide – An introduction to deities, mythical beings and fantastic creatures....
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Rick Riordan
9 FROM THE NINE WORLDS
October 2018, Hyperion, 176 pp
The Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy may have concluded, but we haven’t heard the last of our favorite einherji and his friends. The nine Norse worlds are rich with lore, as this collection...
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Rick Riordan
MAGNUS CHASE AND THE GODS OF ASGARD
THE SHIP OF THE DEAD
October 2017, Hyperion, 432 pp
Loki is free from his chains. He’s readying Naglfar, the Ship of the Dead, complete with a host of giants and zombies, to sail against the Asgardian gods and begin the final battle of Ragnarok. It’s u...
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Rick Riordan
CAMP JUPITER CLASSIFIED
May 2020, Hyperion, 192 pp
A Trials of Apollo Companion Guide – Mysterious incidents are wreaking havoc throughout Camp Jupiter. If the Romans don’t figure out who--or what--is behind the episodes soon, the Twelfth Legion could...
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Rick Riordan
THE TRIALS OF APOLLO
THE TOWER OF NERO
September 2020, Hyperion, 448 pp
At last, the breathtaking, action-packed finale of the #1 bestselling Trials of Apollo series is here! Lester and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester’s fi...
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Ben Clanton
IT CAME IN THE MAIL
June 2016, Simon & Schuster, 40 pp
Liam really wants some mail, so he writes a letter to his mailbox asking for something in return. His mailbox delivers, sending Liam more than he could have hoped for…and how! But as the mail starts t...
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Ben Clanton
SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY
October 2014, Simon & Schuster, 32 pp
An autobiographical picture book which explores the world, wishes and ingenuity of a very imaginative boy....
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Ben Clanton
ROT: THE CUTEST IN THE WORLD
Spring 2018, Simon & Schuster, 32 pp
A fun and silly picture book about a mutant potato named Rot who enters a beauty pageant and must overcome the doubts of the other contestants (a baby bunny, cuddly kitten, and jolly jellyfish) as wel...
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Ben Clanton
ROT: THE BRAVEST IN THE WORLD
June 2020, Simon & Schuster, 32 pp
In this second Rot book, we meet Rot’s big brother Snot, who is a bit of snot to poor Rot. He’s made up a creature called the Squirm that has Rot feeling super scared. But with the help of a cape, bro...
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Ben Clanton
NARWHAL AND JELLY SERIES
NARWHAL'S SWEET TOOTH
July 2024, Tundra/Penguin Random House Canada, 76 pp
In the hilarious ninth book of this blockbuster graphic novel series, Narwhal’s sweet tooth leads to some very funny feelings! Dive into four new stories so sweet they’ll make your teeth tingle! Ever...
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Betty G. Birney
OG THE FROG SERIES
WILDLIFE ACCORDING TO OG THE FROG
Book 3 – May 2020, Putnam/Penguin, 144 pp
In the third book in the spinoff of the Humphrey series, Og and Humphrey head to summer camp to see what’s hopping in the wilderness! Og didn’t know where he would end up when school was over, but it...
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Betty G. Birney
HUMPHREY SERIES
SPRING ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY
Book 12 – January 2016, Putnam/Penguin, 160 pp
Join Humphrey, the classroom hamster, as he navigates the wilds of school with the students of Room 26. Each book is a funny and unique look at life from the perspective of an adorable and caring cla...
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Suzanne Weyn
INVISIBLE WORLD
August 2012, Scholastic, 240 pp
For 15-year-old Sarah Owen, having a scientist father is a blessing and a curse. He doesn’t bat an eye at her psychic abilities, since he researches them; and she knows more about the invisible worlds...
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Suzanne Weyn
THE BAR CODE PROPHECY
October 2013, Scholastic, 208 pp
The third book in the Bar Code series, in which one girl struggles to escape the conformity of a dystopian world. Grace lives a normal life. She goes to school during the day and works part-time at th...
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Suzanne Weyn
DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S DAUGHTERS
January 2013, Scholastic, 250 pp
Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties a...
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Hilary Wagner
NIGHTSHADE CHRONICLES
LORDS OF TRILLIUM
Book 3 – March 2014, Holiday House, 250 pp
Deep beneath a modern metropolis lies the Catacombs, a kingdom of remarkable rats of superior intellect. Following the Bloody Coup, the once peaceful democracy has become a dictatorship, ruled by deca...
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Ellen Oh
THE DRAGON KING CHRONICLES
KING
Book 3 – December 2014, HarperCollins/HarperTeen, 288 pp
This thrilling and romantic conclusion to the Prophecy series brings Kira her final quest. Kira, once an outcast in her home village of Hansong, is now the only one with the power to save her kingdom....
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Ellen Oh
SPIRIT HUNTERS
SPIRIT HUNTERS: SOMETHING WICKED
July 2022, HarperCollins, 240 pp
Harper is dealing with a lot of new changes in her house. Her cousin Leo is now living with them, her sister Kelly has started a new job at a local makeup store, and Harper’s abilities have grown incr...
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Ellen Oh
THE DRAGON EGG PRINCESS
March 2020, HarperCollins, 256 pp
A must-have middle grade novel perfect for fans of the Wing & Claw series by Linda Sue Park. In a kingdom filled with magic, Jiho Park and his family are an anomaly—magic doesn’t affect them. Jiho co...
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Janni Lee Simner
BONES OF FAERIE SERIES
FAERIE AFTER
Book 3 – May 2013, Random House, 272 pp
Janni Lee Simner’s young adult novels are a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fiction, as familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique. The three books in the Bones of Faerie series take readers...
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Jennifer Black Reinhardt
YAKS YAK
March 2016, Clarion/HMH, 40 pp
At once funny and informative, Yaks Yak presents animals acting out the verbs made from their names. Illustrations rich in comic details show hogs hogging, slugs slugging, and other spirited creatures...
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Jennifer Black Reinhardt
ALWAYS BY MY SIDE
March 2021, Random House, 32 pp
A sweet story about a boy and his stuffed animal (standing in for a guardian) that has seen him through his ups and downs, and will always be there for him as he grows up....
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Yamile Saied Méndez
ON THESE MAGIC SHORES
April 2020, Tu Books/Lee & Low, 288 pp
Twelve-year-old Minerva Soledad Madrid does not believe in fairies (or peques, as mamá calls them), despite the fact that her family insists peques followed them from Argentina to the US watch over th...
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Yamile Saied Méndez
FURIA
September 2020, Algonquin/Workman Publishing, 368 pp
Camila “Furia” Hassan has a dream—to play professional fútbol. She lives in the cradle of fútbol legends, Rosario, Argentina, but Rosario only exports fútbol players of the male kind. No one believes ...
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Dana Alison Levy
THE MISADVENTURES OF THE FAMILY FLETCHER
July 2014, Delacorte/Penguin Random House, 260 pp
Modern Family meets modern classics like Beverly Cleary’s Quimbys and Judy Blume’s Hatchers in this heartwarming and hilarious middle grade novel. Four adopted brothers, two dads, and an ever-changing...
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Dana Alison Levy
THE FAMILY FLETCHER TAKES ROCK ISLAND
May 2016, Delacorte/Penguin Random House, 272 pp
Fans of The Penderwicks and other summer tales will enjoy this stand-alone companion novel to the acclaimed Misadventures of the Family Fletcher. Set on a fictional New England island, the boys, ages ...
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Dana Alison Levy
THIS WOULD MAKE A GOOD STORY SOMEDAY
Spring 2017, Penguin Random House, 260 pp
Fans of Dan Santat’s Are We There Yet and Geoff Rodkey’s The Tapper Twins will enjoy this cross-country train trip of a middle grade novel. Twelve-year-old Sara loves her family, but she’s less than t...
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Dana Alison Levy
IT WASN’T ME
November 2018, Delacorte/Penguin Random House, 336 pp
The Breakfast Club meets middle school in this story of six 12-year-old students — five potential perpetrators and Theo, one seriously annoyed victim — forced to spend vacation week together in school...
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Dana Alison Levy
ABOVE ALL ELSE
April 2020, Charlesbridge, TBD pp
Into Thin Air meets The Sun is Also a Star in this tale of two teens who trained their whole lives to summit Mount Everest. High school seniors and best friends Rose and Tate have always climbed toget...
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Aida Salazar
THE MOON WITHIN
Spring 2019, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 250 pp
This free verse middle grade novel tells the story of 11-year-old Cely, whose life swirls with questions about her changing body, her first attraction to a boy, her best friend’s exploration of what i...
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Aida Salazar
LAND OF THE CRANES
September 2020, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 256 pp
This free verse middle grade novel, inspired in part by the author’s own childhood as an undocumented immigrant, tells the story of 9-year-old Betita, who believes that she and other migrants follow a...
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Randi Pink
INTO WHITE
September 2016, Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 288 pp
Sixteen-year-old Latoya Williams, who is black, attends a mostly white high school in the Alabama. In a moment of desperation, she prays for the power to change her race and wakes up white. Randi Pink...
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Randi Pink
GIRLS LIKE US
October 2019, Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 320 pp
This historical fiction novel set in the summer of 1972, months before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade, is an introspective look into abortion rights. The novel weaves togethe...
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Randi Pink
ANGEL OF GREENWOOD
January 2021, Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan, 304pp
ANGEL OF GREENWOOD is a historical fiction novel set in the Tulsa, Oklahoma neighborhood of Greenwood, affectionately known as Black Wall Street, in which sixteen-year-old Angel and seventeen-year-old...
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Kate Samworth
AVIARY WONDERS
March 2014, Clarion/HMH, 32 pp
Since 2031, Aviary Wonders Inc. has offered bird lovers a unique opportunity: Assemble your own bird from stunningly beautiful and carefully hand-crafted parts. The birds can even be taught to fly and...
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Kelly Quindlen
LATE TO THE PARTY
April 2020, Roaring Brook/Macmillan, 304 pp
A story of friendship and first love, featuring a diverse cast of LGBTQ+ characters. Codi wants to score her first kiss—with a girl—but she may have to expand her social world first. Can she fall in ...
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Jim Murphy
BREAKTHROUGH: HOW THREE PEOPLE SAVED “BLUE BABIES” AND CHANGED MEDICINE FOREVER
December 2016, Clarion/HMH, 144 pp
In 1944 a groundbreaking operation repaired the congenital heart defect known as blue baby syndrome. The operation’s success brought the surgeon Alfred Blalock international fame and paved the way for...
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Laura Williams McCaffrey
MARKED
February 2016, Clarion/HMH, 368 pp
Sixteen-year-old Lyla lives in a bleak, controlling society where only the brightest and most favored students succeed. When she is caught buying cheats in an underground shadow market, she is tattooe...
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Josanne La Valley
THE VINE BASKET
April 2013, Clarion/HMH, 256 pp
Things aren’t looking good for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul. She yearns to be in school, but she’s needed on the family farm. The longer she’s out of school, the more likely it is that she’ll be sent of...
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Josanne La Valley
FACTORY GIRL
January 2017, Clarion/HMH, 256 pp
In order to save her family’s farm, Roshen, sixteen, must leave her rural home to work in a factory in the south of China. There she finds arduous and degrading conditions and contempt for her minorit...
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Kristin Kladstrup
THE BOOK OF STORY BEGINNINGS
March 2006, Candlewick, 368 pp
This wonderfully transporting fantasy - featuring a ship full of orphaned pirate children, a pair of warring royals, and plenty of magic potions - is sure to thrill all those who dare turn its pages....
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Kristin Kladstrup
GARDEN PRINCESS
March 2013, Candlewick, 272 pp
Dig in to this middle-grade fantasy featuring a horticulturally-minded princess, a beautiful but evil witch, and a magpie with a shameful secret....
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Kristin Kladstrup
NUTCRACKER MICE
October 2017, Candlewick, 336 pp
Hidden in Saint Petersburg’s famed Mariinsky Theater are the world’s tiniest ballet fans: the Mariinsky mice, including Esmeralda, a rising dancer in the Russian Mouse Ballet Company. Despite being un...
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Carolyn Hennesy
MYTHIC MISADVENTURES SERIES
PANDORA GETS FRIGHTENED
Book 7 – July 2013, Bloomsburg, 288 pp
Mythic Misadventures series in which Pandora tries to recapture all the great evils of the world and return them to the infamous box....
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Stephanie Greene
PRINCESS POSEY SERIES
PRINCESS POSEY
Multiple Dates, Putnam/Penguin, Each 96 pp
In her 12th chapter book, everyone’s favorite first grade friend, Princess Posey, learns that sometimes exciting news comes with big changes. When Posey’s grandpa announces that he’s marrying her nei...
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Stephanie Greene
SOPHIE HARTLEY SERIES
SOPHIE HARTLEY AND THE FACTS OF LIFE
Book 4 – November 2013, Clarion/HMH, 144 pp
The indomitable, quirky, passionate Sophie faces challenges and challengers with determination and resourcefulness. She does so with down-to-earth, realistic, humorous take on friendships and family r...
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Daria Peoples-Riley
THIS IS IT
February 2018, Greenwillow/Harper, 40 pp
A young ballerina, uncertain of her talent, follows the poetically compelling voice of her shadow to discover the courage she needs to audition....
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Daria Peoples-Riley
I GOT NEXT
July 2019, Greenwillow/Harper, 40 pp
A perfect read-aloud for all young athletes on game day, featuring text that mimics spoken-word poetry. When a young basketball player wants to play in the next game at the local playground, his shad...
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Mary E. Lambert
DISTRESS SIGNAL
October 2020, Scholastic, 272 pp
In this edge-of-your-seat survival story, four classmates are stranded in a desert wilderness after a flash flood separates them from the rest of their grade. Can they make it to safety? Lavender’s c...
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David Kreizman
THE YEAR THEY FELL
September 2019, Imprint/Macmillan, 384 pp
In the wake of their parents’ tragic plane crash, five very different teenagers must find a way to navigate their senior year of high school and forge a new family. Josie, Jack, Archie, Harrison, and...
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Jessie Haas
RESCUE
April 2018, Boyds Mills, 200 pp
In this coming-of-age story perfect for horse fans, twelve-year-old animal lover Joni clashes with her new neighbor and animal rights activist Chess. Their bumpy friendship reaches a crisis when Chess...
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Jessie Haas
THE HUNGRY PLACE
October 2020, Boyds Mills, TBD pp
A middle-grade novel told in 2 points of view. Rae grows up longing for, and working to afford, a pony, until at age twelve she crosses paths with Princess, a show-ring champion left to starve by an u...
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Kat Fajardo
MISS QUINCES
May 2022, Graphix/Scholastic, 272 pp
A coming-of-age middle grade graphic novel about a girl forced to celebrate her quinceañera despite hating all things pretty and pink. Suyapa “Sue” Gutierrez was planning a fun summer at camp with he...
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Mike Dutton
FOOD TRUCK FEST!
March 2018, Macmillan/FSG, 40 pp
The rhyming story follows a fleet of food trucks as they get ready for the biggest and best day of the year – the food truck fest....
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Paige Britt
THE LOST TRACK OF TIME
March 2015, Scholastic, 320 pp
Penelope longs to be a writer, but her mother won’t allow it—scribbling in your notebook all day is a complete waste of time! One morning, a strange hole opens up in her otherwise busy schedule, and s...
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Tameka Fryer Brown
BROWN BABY LULLABY
Winter 2020, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/Macmillan, TBD pp
A beautifully illustrated portrayal of parental love in a family of color. When the sun sets, it’s time for Momma, Papi, and their tired toddler to begin the evening’s routine, which includes clangin...
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Nina Crews
SEEING INTO TOMORROW: HAIKU BY RICHARD WRIGHT
February 2018, Millbrook/Lerner, 32 pp
Richard Wright’s haiku put everyday moments – walking a dog, watching a sunset, finding a beetle – into focus. Now, more than fifty years after they were written, these poems continue to reflect kids’...
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Arthur Salm
ANYWAY*
May 2012, Simon & Schuster, TBD pp
Max is a good kid floating in the netherworld of being not quite a teenager. A summertime interlude at a family camp allows him to re-invent himself for a week as Mad Max, a much wilder kid; he’s expe...
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Isaiah Campbell
THE STRUGGLES OF JOHNNY CANNON
October 2014, Simon & Schuster, 336 pp
The sequel to TROUBLES finds Johnny embroiled in a Mafia blood feud as he searches for his happy ending....
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Isaiah Campbell
THE TROUBLES OF JOHNNY CANNON
October 2015, Simon & Schuster, 296 pp
In 1961 Alabama, a Superman obsessed 12-year-old, Johnny Cannon, has to dodge the CIA, outwit the Klan, and escape from Cuba to prove his Pa didn’t sabotage the Bay of Pigs invasion. THE TROUBLES OF J...
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Pat Cummings
TRACE
December 2018, HarperCollins, 320 pp
Coretta Scott King Award winner Pat Cummings’s debut TRACE, about a boy who stumbles into a ghost story born in the turmoil of New York City’s 1863 Draft Riots. Weighed down by guilt for an accident ...
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Victoria J. Coe
FENWAY AND HATTIE SERIES
FENWAY AND HATTIE IN THE WILD
Book 4 – May 2019, Putnam/Penguin Random House, 176 pp
In the fourth book in this adorable middle-grade series, all told from the dog’s point of view, Fenway gets a taste of the wild when he goes on a back-to-school camping trip with his human, Hattie. Th...
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Alina Chau
MARSHMALLOW AND JORDAN
October 2021, First Second/Macmillan, 384 pp
Beautiful watercolor illustrations bring to life this middle grade graphic novel about former youth basketball star Jordan, who was paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She misses playing her...
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Kacen Callender
HURRICANE CHILD
March 2018, Scholastic, 224 pp
A lyrical, debut middle grade novel with a touch of magical realism and LGBTQ+ themes, about first friendship, first love, and finding self-acceptance. 12-year-old Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Chil...
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Kacen Callender
KING AND THE DRAGONFLIES
February 2020, Scholastic, 272 pp
From the Stonewall and Lambda Book Award-winning author of Hurricane Child comes a novel about loss, grief, and finding the courage to discover one’s identity. Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure ...
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Kacen Callender
FELIX EVER AFTER
May 2020, Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins, 368 pp
From Stonewall and Lambda Literary Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a poignant story of identity and self-discovery, layered with romance. Felix Love has never been in love, and he’s painfu...
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Shakirah Bourne
JOSEPHINE AGAINST THE SEA
July 2021, Scholastic, 304 pp
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste meets R.L.Stine’s The Girl Who Cried Monster. 11 year-old Jo discovers that her Dad’s new girlfriend is a powerful sea creature and has to convince everyone of the woma...
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Mary Amato
OUR TEACHER IS A VAMPIRE
March 2016, Holiday House, 256 pp
It all begins when Alexander H. Gory Jr. passes around a notebook in which he reveals a tantalizing secret: he has proof that their teacher, Mrs. Penrose, is a vampire. Soon the entire class is specul...